Jul 02, 2003 10:32 am I have a POD and it has some real dead sounds, but most are good.
I would imagine that would hold true for all brands.
I have a bass POD that has some useless sounds also, but overall it's good.
Amp sims
Posted on Jul 01, 2003 03:29 pm
Geoff
SM7b the Chuck Noris of Mic's
Contributor Since: Jun 20, 2002
almost a year ago i wrote an article here about three amp sims out ( the POD 2, V-Amp2 , and J-station) . I've had a bit of time to play with all of em now and have read hundreds od reveiws not only by the company's but of owners . It seems the most popular one is the POD , and at that the POD seems to have the widest scope of "love it" or "hate it" , there seems to be not middle ground with peoples reviews of this peice of gear . The V-Amp ranks the lowest in the over all #'s but still fairs well , it's a "good" amp sim , most will agree , not perfict but very good for the price . The Best reviews were of the J-station ( i'd have reserched the genesis for Digitech , but digitech own Johson, and they are almost the same peice of gear) I was supprised , how people prefered the J-station over the POD for direct recording . I'm not Bashing the POD , ( I had one and liked it) but I'm sheding a little prise to a peice of equipment that doesn't get much credit and is now not being upgraded due to the Gen-X line by digitech . Just thought I'd share my thoughts on the rising popularity of amp sims .
PS the Recto sounds dead on on the J-station , i i do say so , tweak it a bit and choose the right cab and man I swear it sounds better than my friends Mesa , and the cleans are great .
Note : the common thing that they all have is the auto wah effect is terrible , but most auto wah (in my humble oppinion) aren't the greatest.
just my 2 cents.
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Jul 02, 2003 10:32 am I have a POD and it has some real dead sounds, but most are good.
I would imagine that would hold true for all brands.
I have a bass POD that has some useless sounds also, but overall it's good.
Jul 02, 2003 12:53 pm hmm dead sounds?
for distortion, the only sim i use on my pod is the rectified sound, which is the best one in my opinion. you can run it through any cabinet and it sounds different but always good.
Jul 02, 2003 12:55 pm I agree, I use Rectified all the time. It's great. I love my POD. Heck, I run that sound through my Ampeg biamped bass combo and it sounds awesome. Good bottom from the 15, good sizzle from the 8, it's rocks.
Jul 02, 2003 01:28 pm that has been some of the remarks on a lot of peoples posts about the POD , runing it through an amp and it sounds grat , but direct it comes up a little short , a great peice of equipment , and not a waste of $$ , but I was suprised how well the J-station hit the rectifed sound dead on , with out amping it .
Jul 02, 2003 01:29 pm I run my POD direct A LOT with no amp and it does the job...I know Noize does the same...
Jul 02, 2003 01:45 pm It's all right, I'm not trying to down play the POD by any means, and it is a top-notch rig. I'm just sharing my sheer delight of the J-station and saying, that the POD is not the only thing out there that has great Amps on it. I'm my opinion the J-station, POD (2 and pro. I've never used the XT) and the Higher priced digitech one( I can't remember the name) can stand by each other . They all have there pro's and cons but as for pro sounding sims they do the trick . DB you were the one that got me into experimenting and using amp sims almost 2 years ago, so you helped create this monster hahahhaha :P
Jul 02, 2003 01:48 pm It's aaaalllllllliiiiiiivvvvvvveeeeeeee
Jul 02, 2003 01:56 pm I like the analogy of padiwan lerner to Jedi master .
Jul 02, 2003 02:12 pm it's true nerds grow up to be rock stars !
Jul 02, 2003 02:18 pm back to the amp sims , there is one amp on there that sounds better than the real deal and it's on all of the sims is the Marshall amp , and man this guy over here has a small combo 12x50 i think , and it sounds ...well not up to the name he bought , but the "hot rod" , or what ever the setting they call it on the POD, j-station or any other , sounds better than the real one .
Jul 03, 2003 11:53 am I guess dead sounds was a bad description. I'm knocked out by some, and disapointed with most of the boutique amp sims.
I know if I were a better player I could make them sound better.
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